Combat medic SFC Jessica Harris found her hands steadied by prayer in the heat of an Iraqi firefight, subsequently learning – almost twenty years later, as this book headed to print – that every one ...

Opening a wine bar was not an obvious move for Hanif Sadr. The chef specializes in the cuisine of northern Iran, a country where it’s illegal to consume alcohol, let alone make it. But at his year-old ...

Iraq's National Security Agency said Friday it arrested a former high-level security official for his involvement in the 1980 execution of a prominent Shia cleric and his sister during Saddam ...

BAGHDAD — Iraq's National Security Agency said Friday it arrested a former high-level security official for his involvement in the 1980 execution of a prominent Shiite cleric and his sister ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Boys sit next to a mural of Shiite clerics Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr, left, and Mohammad Sadiq al-Sadr, right ...

FILE - Boys sit next to a mural of Shiite clerics Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr, left, and Mohammad Sadiq al-Sadr, right, in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, April 6, 2013, painted over a portrait of former ...

In 1980, as the government moved against Shiite activists, al-Sadr and his sister Bint al-Huda — a religious scholar and activist who spoke out against government oppression — were arrested ...

Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr was a leading Iraqi Shiite cleric and political critic who opposed the secular Ba’athist government of the former Iraqi president. His opposition intensified following the ...

The Saudi Central Bank (SAMA) gave the green light for STC Bank to commence its operations in the Kingdom. In April 2024, SAMA granted stc an experimental launch permit for STC Bank. The bank, in ...